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Following a wave of creativity, passion for the world’s youth and the release of five singles that have collectively received more than three million views on YouTube alone, the dynamic, multicultural youth ministry of Planetshakers Church, planetboom, reveals its first full-length album, companion book and audiobook.

The new, 11-track album features all five singles released over the last year, including Hebrews 4:15-16 inspired “Run To You” that addresses the proper response to God after “messing up,” Revelation 4-inspired “LEMME TELLYA” that encourages listeners to declare the greatness of Jesus, declarative “Praise Over Problems” and encouraging “New Levels.” The album also includes...Read More Following a wave of creativity, passion for the world’s youth and the release of five singles that have collectively received more than three million views on YouTube alone, the dynamic, multicultural youth ministry of Planetshakers Church, planetboom, reveals its first full-length album, companion book and audiobook.

The new, 11-track album features all five singles released over the last year, including Hebrews 4:15-16 inspired “Run To You” that addresses the proper response to God after “messing up,” Revelation 4-inspired “LEMME TELLYA” that encourages listeners to declare the greatness of Jesus, declarative “Praise Over Problems” and encouraging “New Levels.” The album also includes the title track, “Jesus Over Everything,” which encourages young people to choose Jesus over pressures, temptations - literally everything.

If you are looking for an album that has the high energy of a Planetshakers album, and you want it musically relevant and youthful to the top, then this album is a must. This isn't an album for the local church to pick up and play on acoustic guitars - this is young people doing worship their way.

Opening track 'LEMME Tell YA' is a proper in your face song that mixes together dance, rap and rock, and makes this infusing sound that is not only new and great but very fresh. The energy levels are something else on this album, but what it does feel like, for me, is this is an album like no other, a unque album that is capturing a sound from Planetboom.

As the title of the track says 'Praise Over Problems' is about praising God no matter what. I love the line “We lift Jesus up and the walls come down”. This is a live song and you can feel the energy of the live crowd. What is different about this album is randomly a few live tracks have been thrown in. Great songs, great recordings, but maybe stops the flow of the album, more about that later.

Planetboom is the kind of band that I think needs to be seen live to really get the experience of these songs and see them in the setting they are meant for. It’s the title track that is a bit of a curve ball on this album. 'Jesus Over Everything' changes the sound and tempo of the album to a pure out and out intimate worship song which is very different to the start of the album. Yet this is a brilliant and amazing song. The energy of the song is taken to a new level at the end. This track alone is well worth getting the album for.

The album isn’t full on energetic praise music all the way through, there are some really intimate moments like on 'Run To You', but it’s the exciting energy of the album that is the album's biggest draw. The dance energy on the track 'New Levels' is off the chart and will be amazing live. The song 'Everything x Everything' has a samba feel to the start which again grows into a great dance beat song.

This album is a real mish mash of sounds and can lose the flow of the album at times, especially with the live tracks are thrown in - but the fact there are so many styles actually keeps the album fresh and exciting. As the youth set up from Planetshaker and their high energy worship albums I kind of didn’t expect anything different from Planetboom!

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